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<h2 id="summary">What are Vertical Applications?</h2>
<p>Vertical applications is the term used at W3C to denote particular, generic
application areas, specific communities, etc, that explore how W3C technologies
(e.g., Semantic Web technologies) can help their operations, improve their
efficiencies, provide better user experiences, etc. Some of these application
areas may decide to form some sort a group at W3C to cooperate with other
W3C members to explore these possibilities further. Examples for such vertical
applications that have contact with W3C on different levels are
health care and life sciences, social spaces, digital libraries,
financial services, oil & gas exploration, or e-Government.</p>
<h2 id="uses">What are Vertical Applications Used For?</h2>
<p>Apart from the inherent advantages for a particular vertical application
area to get a better familiarity with a particular W3C technology, these
groups also provide valuable feedbacks on the technologies themselves.
Vertical applications may bring forward specific and sometimes
highly non-trivial use cases, requirements in terms of, say,
the expressivity of <a href="ontology">vocabulary</a> or
<a href="query">query</a> languages,
efficiency considerations for <a href="inference">inferences</a>, etc.
Work on the second generations of languages like OWL2 or SPARQL1.1, or the
work on R2RML, has been greatly motivated
by the feedbacks provided by these vertical applications.
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<p>A good example is the
<a href="/2001/sw/hcls/">The Health Care and Life Science Interest Group</a>.
It has been set up, in 2005, to explore the usability of Semantic Web technologies
in area like drug discovery, patient care management and reporting, publication
of scientific knowledge, drug approval procedures, etc. The group has produced
several demonstrations, publications, organized workshops and conferences, and
has succeeded in turning this particular application area into one of the most
active user communities of Semantic Web technologies. Most major drug research
companies, university labs and
research center working in the area, and specialized tool providers
participated in this work. The feedbacks provided
by this group was also significant for Semantic Web technologies; as an example the
definition of some of the OWL2 Profiles was strongly influenced by
the <a href="ontology">ontologies and vocabularies</a> developed by this community.
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<p>The Semantic Web community maintains a <a href="http://esw.w3.org/topic/SwBooks">list of books</a>
on a W3C Wiki page. Some of those books
are introductory in nature while others are conference proceedings or
textbook that address more advanced topics.
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are usually publicly available. The
W3C also maintains a <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/">collection of Semantic
Web Case Studies and Use Cases</a> that
show how Semantic Web technologies, including different vertical application areas, is used in
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2009/09/xbrl-pressrelease">Financial Data on the Web: A Collaborative Workshop with W3C and XBRL International, Inc.</a>
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